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Montgomery, Alabama – MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A summary of action in the AlabamaLegislature on Friday, the 30th and final day of the 2009legislative session: HOUSE -Heard House Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, announce that hewon't run for re-election next year. -Couldn't agree on a replacement for Jefferson County'soccupational tax. -Gave its annual Shroud Award to Rep. John Knight, D-Montgomery,in recognition of his failed efforts to remove the state sales tax

Montgomery, Alabama – The Alabama Bureau of Investigation is looking into the second shooting involving a Montgomery Police officer.

An unidentified man was shot after police were called to an apartment on the 37 HUNDRED Block of Wesley Drive just after 2 o'clock this morning.

Police were called by a mother and daughter who said they had fought off a man who tried to rape the mother's 20 year old, pregnant, daughter. Both women were suffering from non-life threating cuts with the pregnant woman receiving a cut on her stomach.

Montgomery, Alabama – MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama legislators return today to therecently flooded Alabama Statehouse for the final two days of the2009 regular session with everything from a state budget to taxpreparers and rabies shots on their agenda. A major factor will be the $2.5 billion General Fund budget tofund state troopers, prisons and most state services. TheLegislature passed the budget last week and sent it to GovernorRiley. Riley said Wednesday he will send the budget back to lawmakers

Montgomery, Alabama – (AP) - Federal prosecutors have recommendedthat former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman be sentenced to 20 years inprison when he receives a new sentencing hearing in federal courtin Montgomery. That's a much longer sentence than the more than seven-yearprison term Siegelman originally received for his 2006 convictionin a federal government corruption case. The recommendation comesafter a panel of three appellate judges dismissed two of the sevencharges the former governor was convicted of and ordered a new

Montgomery, Alabama – (AP) - The General Fund budget approved by theLegislature will expand Alabama's insurance program for children tocover 14,000 more children from working families lacking insurance. The expansion was allowed by Congress in February when it raisedthe federal tobacco tax to pay for more children's healthinsurance. The Legislature provided the matching state moneynecessary for the expansion last week when it approved a stateGeneral Fund budget for the fiscal year starting October 1st.

Montgomery, Alabama – MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's counties with the worstunemployment were left out of the first highway projects funded bythe federal stimulus money in the state. The Alabama Department of Transportation on April 10 let bidsfor projects funded by stimulus money in 10 Alabama counties. Therewere no projects on the list for Wilcox County. The unemploymentrate in Wilcos is highest in the state at 22.5 percent. Dallas and Chambers counties each have 18.1 percent unemployment

Jacksonville, Florida – JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The states of Florida and Alabama aremeeting Georgia in federal court in Jacksonville over theallocation of water from Lake Lanier, which is the city ofAtlanta's water supply. U.S. District Judge Paul Manguson will hear arguments Mondayfrom the three states over the legality of the water supplyallocations from Lake Lanier by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Florida and Alabama are both downstream from Lake Lanier andwould like to see the amount of water released from the